reason

(Sound judgment), nounability to know, apperception, awareness, clearheadedness, cognizance, common sense, comprehension, discernment, discretion, discrimination, good sense, insight, intellect, intelligence, judiciousness, knowledge, logic, logicalness, lucidity, mens, mental capacity, mind, perception, percipiency, rationality, recognition, sagacity, sanity, sense, sensibility, sensibleness, sobriety, thinking, thought, understanding, wisdomAssociated concepts: business reason, rule of reasonForeign phrases: Quaere de dubiis, quia per rationes pervenitur ad legitimam rationem.Inquire into doubtful matters, because by reasoning we arrive at legal reason. Lex est dictamen rationis. Law is the dictate of reason. Lex est ratio summa, quae jubet quae sunt utilia et necessaria, et contraria prohibet. That which is law is the consummation of reason, which commands those things useful and necessary, while prohibiting the contrary. Nihil quod est contra rationem est licitum. Nothing is lawful which is contrary to reason. Lex plus laudatur quando ratione probatur. The law is most praiseworthy when it is consistent with reason. Ratio non clauditur loco. Reason is not confined to any place. Ratio et auctoritas duo clarissima mundi lumina. Reason and authority are the two brightest lights in the world. Ratio legis est anima legis. The reason of the law is the spirit of the law. Ratio in jure aequitas integra. Reason in law is impartial eqqity. Ratio est formalis causa consuetudinis. Reason is the source and cause of custom. Lex semper intendit quod convenit rationi. The law always intends what is agreeable to reason. Quod naturalis ratio inter omnes homines constituit, vocatur jus gentium. The rule which natural reason has established among all men is called the law of nations. Ratio est legis anima; mutata legis ratione mutatur et lex. Reason is the soul of law; the reaaon of law being changed, the law is also changed.

REASON. By reason is usually understood that power by which we distinguish
truth from falsehood, and right from wrong; and by which we are enabled to
combine means for the attainment of particular ends. Encyclopedie, h.t.;
Shef. on Lun. Introd. xxvi. Ratio in jure aequitas integra.
2. A man deprived of reason is not criminally responsible for his acts,
nor can he enter into any contract.
3. Reason is called the soul of the law; for when the reason ceases,
the law itself ceases. Co. Litt. 97, 183; 1 Bl. Com. 70; 7 Toull. n. 566.
4. In Pennsylvania, the judges are required in giving their opinions,
to give the reasons upon which they are founded. A similar law exists in
France, which Toullier says is one of profound wisdom, because, he says, les
arrets ne sont plus comme autre fois des oracles muets qui commandent une
obeissance passive; leur autorite irrefragable pour ou contre ceux qui les
ont obtenus, devient soumise a la censure de la raison, quand on pretend les
eriger en regles a suivre en d'autres cas semblables, vol. 6, n. 301;
judgments are not as formerly silent oracles which require a passive
obedience; their irrefragable authority, for or against those who have
obtained them, is submitted to the censure of reason, when it is pretended
to set them up as rules to be observed in other similar cases. But see what
Duncan J. says in 14 S. & R. 240.

For example, Markovits's own view (which she calls "internalism") is that a reason for A to [phi] is a consideration that counts in favor of A's [phi]-ing "in virtue of the relation it shows [phi]-ing to stand in to [A's] existing ends"--for example, a causal or constitutive means-ends relation, or that of being valuable because of the value of A's ends.

Let's state this in the language of contrastive and noncontrastive reasons: If I say that displaying the painting for our guests is a reason to hang it over the fireplace, without contrasting any specific alternative (except not doing so), then this would be a good noncontrastive reason for doing this.

While facts about reason relations do not correspond to mind-independent reality, Skorupski claims, one need not be a noncognitivist or nonnaturalist about them, and can grant them an objective status that distinguishes them from fictional objects.

The Principle of Political Legitimacy would require the religious person in such a situation to translate the basis of the epistemic justification for p into a civic, public reason in order to justify p to others.

The reason why--the recent fire--gives me a rationale to buy into it, a believable explanation of why I might really get 50 percent off, rather than just another garden-variety, totally unbelievable and unmotivating "half price sale.

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